Reconsidering the Concept of "Sculpture"
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"It's amazing how you can use a chisel to create eyebrows or flowers as you please," I said to myself, impressed. Then the young man from earlier said, "What? You don't use a chisel to make eyebrows or noses. You just have to dig them out of the wood with the power of the chisel and hammer. It's like digging a stone out of the ground, so there's no way you can go wrong."
These were the words of the great Italian artist Florence. "Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
I think this is also important for understanding the concept of Social Sculpture. @yudai.icon
"It's nice to think that 'what's already there' is being carved out. It feels like it's being created out of nothing, but it already exists.
In a sense, you could say that it's also digging up the process of language.
I think so too tkgshn.icon*3
I just thought that if it's my own recognition of sculpture, it's already complete, but I feel like social sculpture is not yet complete Yudai.icon
It's subtle whether you've only discovered a part of the statue or whether you're carving a statue within a statue...
That's why it's called "social" sculpture, not just "sculpture"?
I don't think there's a concept of completion Previous companies, interviews and appearances related to oneself.icon
In "social" sculpture, I don't think there is such a thing as a sculpture without context (I think), so in that sense, I think social sculpture continues to create its own context and is therefore never complete. It's not design, it's bricolage. kawahiii.icon Definitely!!! tkgshn.icon*3
Although I don't remember the exact words, it was something like "the sculptor's mission is to rescue the soul trapped in the marble." Michelangelo's words gave me the feeling of "freeing the struggling soul trapped in the shackles of this world," rather than just a statement from a sculptor.
■The "Ideal Body" was "rediscovered" in Renaissance Italy The ideal of classical antiquity was "discovered" or "rediscovered" in Renaissance Italy through excavated artifacts. This is a major difference from the Greek philosophy indirectly inherited through Islam. It was only when they appeared as objects in front of them that people in the Renaissance were able to see the "ideal body" of ancient Greece, which was unrelated to Christian domination, and the ancient Rome before Christian recognition.
As for the exhibits this time, except for Michelangelo's two masterpieces, the other works are mainly exhibited as reference materials, including ancient Greek sculptures and vase paintings. Of course, they have their own value, but they are reference works for thinking about the "ideal body" "rediscovered" and "developed" by Michelangelo.
The sculpture theory from the perspective of "where life resides" is also interesting ggkkiwat.icon